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English Colonisation of North America: Mayflower and a Whole Lot More
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Speaker: Peter Atkinson English interest in North America began with John Cabot, a contemporary of Columbus, who sailed to Newfoundland in 1497 in search of a route to Asia. The first attempts at settlement came a century later and were unsuccessful. The most ambitious failure was in the 1580s under Walter Raleigh at Roanoke Island in…
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Personality traits- do they change?
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This discussion will be led by Marilyn. She suggested talking about ourselves, our personality traits because what makes us so unique from each other is our personalities. What do we know about it and how do we recognize ourselves? How did each of us develop so differently from one another, what things happened in each…
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Day Trip to Murcia
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Travel by coach from outside Interiors, Av. d’Ausiàs March, Javea Port to Murcia with a comfort stop along the way. Visit the city to enjoy the sights or shop.
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Arabian Gulf. Oman and Bahrain
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Ally will give a short talk on the fascination History of the first two places to be created in the Gulf of Arabia, formerly the Persian Gulf. Why did Babylon fight to gain control? What is the connection between Pearls, the Garden of Eden, Sinbad the Sailor, Zanzibar, the African slave trade plus Oil, Portsmouth…
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Grace O’Malley, The Pirate Queen of Ireland.
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Angela Chantry is starting us off with a fascinating tale about a fascinating person! In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O’Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her command,…